{"id":1209,"date":"2012-04-03T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-04-03T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:44:50","slug":"baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/03\/travel\/allegiant-air-carryon-fee\">Allegiant Air<\/a> is starting to come around.<\/p>\n<p>For several years, many airlines have had checked bag fees &#8211; but carry-ons are free. But it&#8217;s having carry-on bags that slows everyone down while inept and hapless travelers try to wedge their carry-on and &#8220;small personal item&#8221; into overhead bins, under the seat in front of them, or in a neighbor&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s reverse that policy and allow one carry-on bag per person <em>for free<\/em>\u00a0(laptop bag, backpack, purse, etc). Then have all other bags be checked (maybe charge over 3 checked bags &#8211; or not, that&#8217;d be up to the airlines).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d put money down that most everyone&#8217;s flights would be substantially smoother that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see Allegiant Air is starting to come around. For several years, many airlines have had checked bag fees &#8211; but carry-ons are free. But it&#8217;s having carry-on bags that slows everyone down while inept and hapless travelers try to wedge their carry-on and &#8220;small personal item&#8221; into overhead bins, under the seat in front &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1209\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">baggage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,43],"tags":[128,316,331],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-travel","tag-baggage","tag-fees","tag-flying"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}